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In writing (and I imagine in programming as well) every "expression" has been mimiced by some other author somewhere. Asimov has done extensive writing on this
by tsally 18y ago
In writing (and I imagine in programming as well) every "expression" has been mimiced by some other author somewhere. Asimov has done extensive writing on this issue, and as he makes clear, it's not nearly as black and white as you are implying.
- unalone 18y agoBut an "expression" as a unit is meaningless. The value comes from putting it all together as a whole, which is several orders of magnitude harder than figuring out each instance separately.